Mar 5, 2014
(this review contains spoilers)
Katoura-san was terrible because of how disappointing it was.
The first episode was AMAZING. It was so well put together, but then the rest, absolute horse shit.
The writers somehow think it's funny to have an old man molesting his little granddaughter. They make jokes about him touching her and feeling her up all the time. It's not funny! It's just sick! I couldn't help but cringe and these moments that were supposed to be humorous.
The other jokes suck because they're repetitive. Pretty much every other joke revolves around the fact that the main male protagonist is perverted, and Katoura can read minds,
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so obviously it leads to some awkward situations. But they reuse this AGAIN, and AGAIN, and AGAIN, and AGAIN. Literally, like 99% of the jokes in this anime are just that reiterated.
Other parts of the anime are just ridiculous beyond words!
There's this one part of the anime where Katoura reads the mind of a stranger by accident, and sees incredibly dark and grotesque things that causes her to faint. She then learns that there is a person in the city who is beating high school girls to a pulp and then leaving them there.
So, the show has a plot twist. The person doing it turns out to be one of the female police officers who is somewhat developed throughout the last two episodes. It was a slightly expected but decent plot twist. But right when you think the show is getting better, it gets worse.
Katoura realizes that the reason the officer is beating these girls is because she had a terrible, abusive childhood. We also learned from the previous character development that the officer is antisocial and has pretty much no friends. Basically, the officer is jealous of these girls so she beats them.
Katoura realizes this when she is cornered by the officer who is going to attack her. But Katoura pours out her heart to the officer and explains how people do care about her and if she were to open up, she would have more friends.
So, the officer feels ashamed and turns herself in.
Seems logical, right? Heh.
When she turns herself in, she takes on Katoura's advice and asks her coworker to lunch after she gets out of prison.
So, think about it. You're working with someone, and you JUST figure out that she's been BEATING HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS HALF TO DEATH ALL AROUND THE CITY, and then SHE ASKS YOU TO LUNCH. You would obviously turn her down, right?
Nooooo! The guy doesn't even act the least bit shocked that he figured this out about his coworker and takes her up on the offer and sees her off, like NOTHING HAPPENED.
NOTHING HAPPENED?! WHAT?!
What's worse is how repetitive this anime is.
Besides this, all the other tangents involve Katoura being sad and running away and her friends coming to get her. It's just that over and over again.
There is nothing particularly wrong with the art or the music/sound.
The story is just so terrible, repetitive, unrealistic, undeveloped, anticlimactic, lazy, and impossible to take seriously.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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